development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 months, with an average effect size of 0.13 SD … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health … health checkups, which may have induced behavior changes that improved children's health and cognitive development, including …

development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 months, with an average effect size of 0.13 SD … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health … health checkups, which may have induced behavior changes that improved children's health and cognitive development, including …

This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find … steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses … in India of boys performing better. …

. We document a large reduction in absenteeism, as well as an increase in some measures of cognitive development, though … only for children around the median of the attendance rate baseline distribution (between deciles 4 and 6). The … intervention was ineffective for children with very high or very low pre-treatment absenteeism levels. Our results, although …